SUSAN GETS ENGAGED

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 503.

Susan Brown and Tom Smith first met at a Christmas party at a friend's house. He was then a student at a university and she had just left school. That was more than two years ago. During this time they have become close friends, and now they are engaged to be married.

Tom is a very nice boy - and Susan loves him very much. He is clever, too. He did well at the university and now he has a good job at a cycle factory near Bishopton, where he is making excellent progress. Learning to be a manager is interesting work and Tom enjoys it. Although he is not earning a very large salary at the moment, he hopes to be a manager himself soon. Susan's father and mother like Tom and are glad that their daughter has found someone who will look after her and be kind to her. So when Susan and Tom said that they wanted to get married Mr. and Mrs. Brown were very happy.

The young people have not made any arrangements for the wedding yet. Getting married is very expensive, and they will have to save some money first, so they do not mind if they have to put off the wedding for a little while. They will want to buy a house, too, and this is not easy. Many young married people today live with the girl's family or with the boy's family, but it's better for them to have a house of their own. So Tom and Susan will have to work hard, to save as much money as they can and look for a house before they can get married. But as Tom is only twenty-two and Susan is only twenty, this does not matter very much.

When Mr. Carter, the manager of Tom's factory, heard that Tom and Susan were engaged, he sent for him and told him he was going to ask the directors to raise his salary. ‘You'll need it when you are married, as you'll very soon find out', he said.